Talk:Eastman Kodak
From Academic Kids
Pinching of patents seems to have been a feature of George Eastman's career. In 1889 he was trying to overcome curling of a film base when coated with photographic emulsion. He was sent a sample of a patented celluloid varnish by New Jersey clergyman-inventor Hannibal Goodwin which did the job, but Eastman passed it to one of his chemists who 17 days later applied for a patent on a transparent roll film. The rest, as they say, is history. Goodwin's film was later marketed under the name An-sco and he was involved in litigation with Eastman until 1914 when he was awarded $5 million for patent infringement - a tidy sum in those days.
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"determined by over 150,000 continuous measurements in homes around the world and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals over 14 years." - let's just see an actual reference to a journal article, and see a source for the 150,000 measurements claims, shall we? - Ta bu shi da yu 07:13, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
More removed: "which is also confirmed by real-world long-term print displays". Well, that's not exactly Kodak's target market now, is it? And give me a source for this data. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:17, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Germans
The Germans have the following (translated by Google):
- Enterprise history
Kodak manufactured already early roll films and starting from 1888 also industrially manufactured cameras , among them the Kodak No. 1 , the Brownie as well as later the Instamatic ), which could be simply served also by amateurs, not only by occupation photographers,; Kodak made so the photography in the USA popular leisure activities.
1927 transferred Kodak the film manufacturer gloss film AG to Berlin Koepenick as well as at the end of of 1931 also Stuttgart camera works the Dr. August nail ; the cameras manufactured in Germany carried therefore in the start time the additive Dr. Nail work Stuttgart .
Starting from center of the 1930er years recruits Kodak in folders - to advance toward probably over anti-American resentment - with statements like "German the Kamer" , praises themselves, to give "1500 people comrades work and bread" and states to only process "best native raw materials ". Starting from 1940 the Kodak work changes over in Stuttgart then to arms production .
The Kodachrome series dia.-films the color introduced by Kodak 1935 set over decades the quality standard; they are manufactured first as 8-mm-Schmalfilm as well as starting from 1936 also as 35-mm-Kleinbildfilm .
Later imported marks for photographic films are among other things the Ektachrome Diafilme after that Kodak E6 design philosophy, the Kodacolor of -Negativfilme for papierabzuege as well as end 20. Century the color world of -Negativfilme.
After a patent controversy with Polaroid was lost, Kodak the market for Sofortbildkameras gave up on 9 January 1986 .
Into the 1980er years of Kodak considerably with imported compact Kodak Disc system developed to a failure; today there are neither Disc materials, nor departures can be made by Disc negatives.
In the digital photo range Kodak with the Kodak was photo CD ( 1992 and later with the Kodak Picture Disc of one the outrider. Regardless of its, the company under the strongly declining sales of its analog films has to suffer with difficulty. In Germany 2004 all company-owned large laboratories was closed, personnel is world-wide diminished.
At the beginning of of 2004 announced Kodak to stop and 35mm cameras no longer in North America and Western Europe to offer want the sales of cameras straight only Advanced photo of system ( APS), aufwaendig introduced to the 1990er years, in order to be able to concentrate more strongly to the market of the digital photo devices.
